Use of stress waves for determining the depth of surface-opening cracks in concrete structures

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 494-505

  Lin, Yiching ^a   Su, Wen Chi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Concrete; Nondestructive testing; Surface opening cracks; Time domain

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CRACKS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SAFETY TESTING; SURFACE TESTING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CRACK DEPTH; DISPLACEMENT WAVEFORMS; ELASTIC IMPACT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SURFACE OPENING CRACKS;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0030230965     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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